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Updating a single Nutanix node

All the controller VMs of a Nutanix cluster have to have the same version of NOS installed. If you upgrade a cluster. All the CVMs are upgraded one-by-one.If you want to add a new node to the cluster, that node has to have to same version of NOS. So what if you bought new Nutanix […]

Thursday October 2nd, 2014 in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Putty fatal error after upgrading Nutanix NOS

After a upgrading 32 Nutanix servers (8 boxes of 4 servers) I got a error from Putty while trying to connect to a CVM with SSH: “Disconnected: No supported authentication methods available (server sent: publickey)”         Before upgrading I haven’t any problems using Putty to SSH to a CVM. The error indicates […]

Wednesday July 30th, 2014 in Uncategorized | No Comments »

New Book – vSphere Virtual Machine Management

A virtual machine (VM) is a software implementation of a machine (a computer) that executes programs like a physical machine. vSphere has clusters of virtual machines that are all interconnected. Virtualization changes everything. Virtual machines have far more functionality than physical servers and are capable of incredible things. Virtual machines should not be treated and […]

Wednesday May 28th, 2014 in Uncategorized | No Comments »

How to add a new node to a Nutanix cluster using CLI

If you want to expand you Nutanix cluster with a new node you have the option to do this from the GUI. But sometime you want to do it from the command line using the CLI. Before you start check a couple of things: Is IPV6 working between the Nutanix hosts? Get the IPV6 address […]

Tuesday February 18th, 2014 in Uncategorized | No Comments »

How to check your version of Nutanix NOS

On the CVM controller issue the command: cat /etc/nutanix/svm-version  

Tuesday February 18th, 2014 in Uncategorized | No Comments »